Prof CD Scott

Expertise

• Philosophy of Science
• Philosophy of religion

Qualifications

• D.Phil. (Philosophy) (University of Pretoria) (2014)
• M.A. (Philosophy) (University of Pretoria) (2007)
• B.A. (Hons.) (Philosophy) (University of Pretoria) (2004)
• B.A. (University of Pretoria) (2003)
• H.Dip.Th. (Theological Education by Extension College) (2017)
• Certificate in Chaplaincy Studies (Maryvale Institute, Birmingham) (2022)

NRF Rating

Currently teaching

• PLS2607 (Philosophy of Science)
• HRPLS81 (Philosophy Research Report)
• PLS4802 (A thorough study of a period in the history of philosophy)
• PLS4804 (A thorough study of an approved philosophical problem: Epistemology and Philosophy of Science)

Fields of academic interests

• Catholic Intellectual Tradition

Epistemology

• History of Philosopy

• Philosophy of Religion
• Philosophy of Science
• Science and Religion
• Thomism

Field of Specialisation

• Catholic Intellectual Tradition

• Philosophy of Cosmology
• Philosophy of Religion
• Philosophy of Science
• Philosophy of Science and Religion
• Thomism

Journal articles

• “An Ubuntu critique of racism: towards a racist free society.”, 2010, Pp. 132 – 139, in: Farquharson, F. (Ed.). Inaugural Ubuntu Conference: Conference Proceedings: Peer Reviewed Academic Abstracts, Papers and Posters. Durban: The Moses Kotane Institute (MKI). ISBN: 978-0-620-46289-1.
• “Beyond Racism: Ubuntu and the Other.”, Skills at Work: Theory and Practice Journal, Volume 3, 2010. Pp. 71 – 80. ISSN: 1815-3666.
• “Fides et ratio: science and faith in compliment.”, Phronimon: Journal of the South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, Volume 11(2), 2010, Pp. 49 – 67. ISSN: 1561 4018. URL: http://www.phronimon.co.za/index.php/phroni/article/view/12/8.
• “The Evolutionary Thought of Teilhard de Chardin: Meanderings at the Limits of Science and Metaphysics.”, Journal of Theology for Southern Africa, 141, November 2011, Pp. 81 – 100. ISSN: 0047 2867.
• “Understanding beyond language: perceiving meaning in reality.”, Koers: Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 76(4), 2011, Pp. 661 – 686. ISSN: 0023-270X. URL: http://koersjournal.org.za/index.php/koers/article/viewFile/415/383.
• “The death of Philosophy: a response to Stephen Hawking.” South African Journal of Philosophy, 31(2), 2012, Pp. 384 – 404. ISSN: 0258-0136. DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2012.10751783.
• “Facing Being: the significance of Thomist ontological epistemology to realism in post-Kantian philosophy.”, South African Journal of Philosophy, 33(3), 2014, Pp. 347-364. ISSN: 0258-0136, EISSN: 2073-4867. (DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2014.914323). 
• “Primary causality: in defence of the metaphysical rationality of faith in God as Creator.”, Verbum et ecclesia, 36(1), 2015. ISSN: 1609-9982 (print), 2074-7705 (online). DOI: doi:10.4102/ve.v36i1.1377. URL: http://www.ve.org.za/index.php/VE/article/view/1377.
• “Rewriting Aquinas’ animal ethics: the primacy of reason in the determination of moral status.”, South African Journal of Philosophy, 34(3), 2015, Pp. 289-303. (Co-authored with Yolandi Marié Coetser). ISSN: 0258-0136, EISSN: 2073-4867. DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2015.1055450. URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/ref/10.1080/02580136.2015.1055450.
• “Saint Thomas Aquinas’ ontological epistemology as clarified realism: The relating of subject to object for ontological knowledge.”, South African Journal of Philosophy, 35(3), 2016, Pp. 249-260. ISSN: 0258-0136, EISSN: 2073-4867. DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2016.1183439. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02580136.2016.1183439.
• “The frontiers of empirical science: A Thomist-inspired critique of scientism.”, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 72(3), 2016, 3180. ISSN: 0259-9422. URL: http://www.hts.org.za/index.php/HTS/article/view/3180.
• "Aquinas and Solovyov: Unified Christian ontological-epistemology in critique of epistemic reductivism.", Verbum et Ecclesia, 39(1), 2018, ISSN: 2074-7705 (Online), 1609-9982 (Print). URL: https://verbumetecclesia.org.za/index.php/ve/article/view/1891/3530.
• “The decolonial Aquinas? Discerning epistemic worth for Aquinas in the decolonial academy.”, South African Journal of Philosophy, 38(1), 2019, Pp. 40-54, ISSN: 0258-0136, EISSN: 2073-4867. DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2019.1576103. URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/02580136.2019.1576103.
• “Decolonisation and Rehumanising through Reclaiming the Humanities in ODEL.”, African Journal of Inter-Multidisciplinary Studies, 3(1), 2021, Pp. 178-196. ISSN: 2663-4597, EISSN: 2663-4589. DOI: 10.51415/ajims.v3i1.928. URL: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v3i1.928.

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

• National Research Foundation (NRF) Rating: Y2 (October 2015)
• Award in recognition of innovation in Teaching & Learning at Unisa (2011)
• National Research Foundation (NRF) Rating: C2 (December 2021)
• African Delegate, International Diaconate Centre, Rottenburg, Germany
• Editorial Board member, Studia Gilsoniana, Cromwell, Connecticut, USA